The Hofkapelle copy has been used for verification but the viola part, which is certainly not authentic, has been included in this edition to reflect the performance tradition at the Hofkapelle and because Hofmann employs a pair of violas as solo instruments in the work.

In the absence of both the autograph score and an authentic set of parts, this edition presents as faithfully as possible the intentions of the composer as transmitted in the two sources. The style and notation of articulation and dynamic markings have been standardised throughout, and, where missing from the respective sources, markings have been re-constructed from parallel passages. These are indicated by the use of dotted slurs or brackets. Like most eighteenth-century sources, the present manuscripts are inconsistent at times in its notation of appoggiature; these too have been standardised to minimise confusion.

Obvious wrong notes have been corrected without comment; editorial emendations with no authority from the source are placed within brackets.